Word: special
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...admirable success of the Housing Trust to date should indicate that there is no need for the University itself to take definite measures to provide homes for its faculty except in special cases. Obviously the home for the head of the Business School is a special case. Its close relation to the other buildings of the school will enable the Dean to keep in close touch with his affairs and will render easy the duties of "landlording" required from the University. The proposed masters' houses to be built in connection with the projected Harvard system appear to have the same...
...very high academic distinction," includes 39 men. The second group includes 160 names, while there are 128 in the third division, made up of upperclassmen in Group III of the Rank List and of first-year students who have been awarded Harvard Club scholarships or who have a special claim to College Scholarships. In addition, 54 Freshmen received awards...
...most boarding schools a student has practically no time of his own. From the time that he gets up in the morning to the end of the day his time is carefully planned for him, with special attention to the number of hours he spends over his book. Coming to college with no such stringent regulations placed upon him the natural tendency is to completely ignore the necessity of planning his time with the result that he fails to spend sufficient time on his academic work...
Rumours which have been current throughout the winter were brought to a head yesterday afternoon, when Representative Hagan, speaking in the Massachusetts legislature, linked the nefarious interests of the Power Trust with the Harvard Business School. Hagan demanded a sweeping investigation into the activities of these companies with special emphasis upon their attempt to "invade the sacred portals of Harvard" in the exercise of their influence...
...meeting was broadly devoted to "education and leisure." Said Major Fred J. Ney, N. C. E. executive secretary, prime mover of the convention: "The real purpose of this conference ... is to develop a keener appreciation-of the educational problems common to the whole of Canada. .... A more special purpose is to draw the widest possible attention to certain aspects of our western civilization which are crying out for consideration. . . . The older countries [invited to the convention] offer something of a challenge to the voice and speed of our western civilization. . . ." The contributions were not startling. Rabindranath Tagore deplored the constitutional...